Daily Articles

Inconsistent Conservatives and Progressives

by Sheldon Richman November 23, 2009

Listening to the leading voices of conservatism and progressivism, one gets the feeling they are not quite listening to themselves. On any given day you are likely to hear each side make arguments against the other that fully apply to itself in some area of public policy. Progressives, for example, tend to be critical (though imperfectly so) of the military ...

The Trial of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed (Video)

by Jacob G. Hornberger November 16, 2009

The Trial of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed (Video from Judge Andrew Napolitano’s Freedom Watch FoxNews.com)

Health-Care “Reform”: It’s All About Power

by Sheldon Richman November 13, 2009

If the politicians who are bent on redesigning the medical and medical-insurance industries really wanted only to curb rising prices and help the uninsured get coverage, they would have zeroed in on the previous government interventions that created those problems. Instead, they are pushing grand schemes to turn our medical decision-making over to bureaucrats. That indicates that the so-called ...

Foreign-Policy Blowback at Ft. Hood

by Jacob G. Hornberger November 10, 2009

Amidst all the debate over whether the Ft. Hood killer is a terrorist, murderer, enemy combatant, traitor, sleeper agent, or insane person, there is one glaring fact staring America in the face: what happened at Ft. Hood is more blowback from U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East, specifically the occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan. Even at this early ...

Do We Really Need a Central Bank?

by Steven Horwitz November 10, 2009

On December 2, 2009, Steve Horwitz gave the following speech at The Future of Freedom Foundation’s “Economic Liberty Lecture Series.” The speech can viewed below in its entirety.

Outside the Law: Stories from Guantánamo (Video)

by Andy Worthington November 8, 2009

On November 8, 2009, Andy Worthington gave a talk on his new documentary film, Outside the Law: Stories from Guantánamo. The speech can viewed below in its entirety.

Lessons from the Great Depression

by Lawrence W. Reed November 3, 2009

On November 2, 2009, Lawrence W. Reed gave the following speech at The Future of Freedom Foundation’s “Economic Liberty Lecture Series.” The speech can viewed below in its entirety.

Ali al-Marri’s Eight-Year Sentence

by Andy Worthington November 2, 2009

So it’s finally over. Ali al-Marri, a legal U.S. resident from Qatar, who was held as an “enemy combatant” on the U.S. mainland for five years and eight months without charge or trial, was finally sentenced in a federal court last Thursday. The prosecution was seeking a 15-year sentence, following al-Marri’s guilty plea in April, when, as part ...

Liberal Delusions about Freedom

by Jacob G. Hornberger November 1, 2009

To combat the town-hall protests that sprang up around the nation against President Obama’s health-care plan, one of the favorite tactics employed by liberals was to question the sanity of the protesters. Anyone who showed up at such meetings angrily protesting Obama’s plan to socialize medicine was termed a crazy. That was especially true if a protester happened to be ...

Scott Horton Interviews Jacob Hornberger (Audio)

by Jacob G. Hornberger November 1, 2009

Scott Horton Interviews Jacob Hornberger (Audio)

Statist Follies (Video from Judge Andrew Napolitano’s Freedom Watch FoxNews.com)

by Jacob G. Hornberger November 1, 2009

Statist Follies (Video from Judge Andrew Napolitano’s Freedom Watch FoxNews.com)

Nationalized Health Care and Economic Fallacy

by Sheldon Richman November 1, 2009

It takes a discussion of the role of government in health care to really bring out the economic illiteracy among the politicians and commentariat. The long list of fallacies they have uttered about markets and government is truly stunning. Take competition. President Obama, after several unsuccessful attempts at selling his plan to redesign 15 percent of the U.S. economy, turned ...